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...other problems. The young people claim that McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar, even as the company pushed bigger, more sinful portions via "supersize" enticements. Their lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, says the chain's kid-focused ads and toy promotions portrayed McDonald's as child friendly, leading his clients to believe it was O.K. to eat there as often as they wished, sometimes two or three times a day. One of the clients, a 400-lb, 15-year-old boy, says he ate at McDonald's nearly every day, beginning...
...target and leading planning meetings. He also confessed to a string of bomb attacks on churches in 2000. MEANWHILE Lightyear's Ahead Galactic hero Buzz Lightyear took time off battling the evil Zorg to fight crime in Hereford, Britain. Police were looking for a thief who'd stolen a toy from Woolworth's, when an electronic voice crackled out: "Buzz Lightyear, permission to engage!" They found the crook hiding under a bridge...
...ARCHOS JUKEBOX MULTIMEDIA 20 An audio-video toy for bigger kids, this jukebox holds more than MP3s; it can store up to 40 hours of MPEG-4 video for viewing on its LCD screen. www.archos.com...
...preprogrammed questions and read flash cards (as long as they're within her vocabulary of 650 English words and a smattering of German, Spanish, Italian and French ones). If all this gets to be too much, you can always switch Cindy off and braid her white-blond hair. INVENTOR Toy Quest AVAILABILITY Now, $99 TO LEARN MORE toyquest.com
Inside every man there's a little boy who loves to play. Consider RCWAVE.COM, where we found the iRacer, a teeny remote-controlled car that makes a terrific desk toy for the executive who could use some comic relief. Or GIANTROBOT.COM (from home page, click GR Store), which carries Asian pop-culture kitsch, T shirts, comics, and other random items (Japanese Winney the cow egg toy: $7.50). Need a gift with more gravitas? Get silk ties, merino wool sweaters and other staples at BROOKSBROTHERS.COM. For the outdoorsman, there's REI.COM, which lists products by activity (cycling, cross training, Alpine skiing...